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18 M A PICUTRE OF THE SEAMIER SIDE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADING IN SOUTH EASE ASIA WAS PRESENTED TO THE COURT WHEN KWOK THE DWARF'' TOOK THE STAND. KWOK, WHO HAD A WIFE AND FAMILY IN VIETNAM AS WELL. AS A WIFE IN HONG KONG, TOLD OF A LONG SERIES OF MEETINGS IN DOWNTOWN HOTELS AND TEASHOPS IN HONG KONG, BANGKOK AND TAIPEI, IN THE COURSE OF WHICH THE DETAILS OF THE HUEY FONG OPERATION WERE HAMMERED OUT WITH PROTRACTED BARGAINING BY ALL PARTIES,
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19. KWOK, WHO HIMSELF SAILED ON THE SHIP FROM BANGKOK AND WHO
AS AN LATER POSED AS A REFUGEE, SAID THAT HIS OWN ''CUT'' ORGANISER WAS EVENTUALLY AGREED AT HONG KONG DOLLARS 120,000
ABOUT £10,000 STERLING). HE ADMITTED THAT HE HAD TRIED AT ONE STAGE TO DECEIVE THE HUEY FONG'S MASTER AND OFFICERS BY PRETENDING IT HAD BEEN ARRANGED FOR FISHING JUNKS TO TAKE THE REFUGEES FROM THE FREIGHTER AND IN TO HONG KONG.
20. KWOK ALSO TOLD THE COURT OF ANXIOUS TELEPHONE CALLS AND CABLED MESSAGES RECEIVED IN HONG KONG FROM UNCLE KWONG'' IN VIETNAM WHEN THE HUEY FONG PREPARATIONS APPEARED TO BE GETTING BOGGED DOWN. WHAT WAS THE USE OF HAVING ALL THE ''FROZEN DUCKS'' READY, COMPLAINED KWONG, IF THE BRIDE'' COULD NOT GET TO THE ''WEDDING' ON TIME?
21. THE STORY OF CRUELTY, EXPLOITATION AND GREED GIVEN TO THE COURT HAS BEEN INTERSPERSED WITH SOME ELEMENTS OF LOW-LIFE BLACK HUMOUR - AS WHEN STATEMENTS MADE BY THE HUEY FONG'S CAPTAIN
WERE READ OUT.
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22. IN ONE STATEMENT, WHICH HE LATER ADMITTED TO BE FALSE, HE PRETENDED THAT HE HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF KWOK THE DWARF, QUESTIONED BY THE POLICE ABOUT THE NAME KWOK WHICH APPEARED IN A CABLE SENT FROM THE SHIP, HE SAID: "'SHE'S A WOMAN WHO HAS SLEPT WITH ME OFTEN, BUT WHOSE NAME I CANNOT REMEMBER'
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/23. THE TRIAL